Francis Fukuyama

In ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, Francis Fukuyama famously argued that the global spread of liberal democracy signalled the conclusion of humanity’s sociocultural evolution. In view of populism, inequality, Islamism and mass migration, how has Fukuyama’s thought developed in the intervening twenty-five years?

American political scientist. Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Author of The End of History and the Last Man (1992). Recently publications